Western Law is a public law school located at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1959, its first Dean was former Supreme Court of Canada justice, the Honourable Ivan Cleveland Rand, who saw the school as developing “in the minds of its students the habit of thinking in terms of the dynamic tradition, in the broadest sense, of our law.” The Dean of Law is Iain Scott, former Chair and Chief Executive Officer of McCarthy Tétrault, who began his tenure on September 1, 2011. In 2011, The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law changed its brand to Western Law.